By Al S. Mendoza GOLF, tennis and Philippine basketball grabbed sporting headlines this week. Tiger Woods is back in golf’s big league, entering the British Open that is famously known simply as The Open. To those not in the know, The Open is the oldest golf tournament in world….
By Gonzalo Duque THE latest Pulse Asia survey on former President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance is not surprising at all. Despite being labeled by bashers as human rights violator by his detractors and the western press, PRRD consistently earned an incredible 83 percent performance rating throughout and finally an 89%…
By Leonardo Micua AGAIN, the people of Dagupan are trooping to the Dagupan City hall in droves, something they had not done for the past three years under the past city administration. And because all cannot be accommodated in the city hall’s second floor for fear it might collapse…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I wake up to the dawn of calm, before the birds steal the silence, where I can only hear the sound of me. I listen to my breath, telling me, that the moment is precious, and each breath that passes is a moment gone, and…
By Farah G. Decano LAWYERS are affected too by the economy. The more vulnerable ones are those in private practice as solo practitioners. Because the costs of maintaining offices, paying wages of staff and purchasing of equipment and supplies rests on the lone shoulders of these lawyers, some had…
By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE world title fight between our very own world champion Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo versus Rey Vargas of Mexico for the WBC featherweight crown last Sunday in San Antonio, Texas was not shown live on television, unlike before. But being ardent boxing fans, we watched…
By Rex Catubig IT was just another Monday. As the sultry afternoon was winding down, clock watchers in offices were fidgety and kept glancing at the wall clock, waiting impatiently for 5 o’clock to strike. The lady employees had begun the ritual of retouching their make-up, nudging off their…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING uncanny hit home with the revelation of the Municipal l Agriculture Office in San Fabian town – that most of the illegal fish pens in that town were actually owned by businessmen from Dagupan City. With the unprecedented big number of illegal fish…
By Al S. Mendoza INVESTMENTS, like gas pedals to our cars, spur, if not speed up, economic growth. No country will survive without investments, both local and foreign. Local funds help gun up commerce two-ways, as in Filipino businessmen working their butts out for the ultimate benefit of fellow…
By Gonzalo Duque I attended the inauguration of the Dagupan Diagnostic Center in Barangay Herrero-Perez, led by Mayor Belen Fernandez last Wednesday morning. It’s a long overdue project of Mayor Belen that was ignored and abandoned by the Lim administration, simply because it was not his project. I was shocked…
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